Rehabbing Hen -New issue. Need advice please

[micstrachan]

No offense taken whatsoever. Communicating over the Internet has its challenges. I am wondering if perhaps the coccidiosis was not completely eradicated. What was the exact treatment? I am not experienced with coccidiosis myself, but several others here can tell you if you have enough corid and for long enough.

 

[snip2377]

Swollen eyes can be respiratory infection, so antibiotic ointment was a good idea. Most respiratory infections are viral in nature, but antibiotics can help battle secondary infections. Is your coop pretty well ventilated?

She isn’t in a coop at the moment. She is in here own cage or area. I don’t like my special needs peeps to be picked own. She has been indoors until about two days ago when I let her stay outside all night in her cordoned area. To be safe but back in the presence of the other birds. With the eye thing I started doctoring yesterday and she spent last night indoors perched on the kitchen chair under railing. With her puppy pad in place. That is where she wanted to be. She is outside sitting on a vegetable basket eating her water food. I bring her outside everyday even when she is indoors while sick. I think she needs the air and space and to be in close proximity to the other birds. But that is just me, she didn’t tell me that lol. Sorry, my husband asked me did she tell me all that when I said the same thing to him the other day and he kids me about speaking chicken. It still makes me laugh.

 

[micstrachan]

You are doing a great job with her. I had a very sick hen once I nursed back to health. She was my only chicken who did not like to lap sit, but dragged herself into my lap for comfort. She was my little buddy until the end (eventually succumbed to her illness, egg yolk peritonitis) and I would sneak her meal worms when the rest of the flock wasn’t looking.

 

[snip2377]

No offense taken whatsoever. Communicating over the Internet has its challenges. I am wondering if perhaps the coccidiosis was not completely eradicated. What was the exact treatment? I am not experienced with coccidiosis myself, but several others here can tell you if you have enough corid and for long enough.

That is my exact thought. I gave it undiluted for 3 days as I’d read to do and then in the water with every other bird.

 

[micstrachan]

Great job letting her be around the flock at least part time. You are right; she needs that. Our feathers friends really steal our hearts, don’t they?

 

[snip2377]

Great job letting her be around the flock at least part time. You are right; she needs that. Our feathers friends really steal our hearts, don’t they?

Yes! I recently lost my little blue Cochin bantam. He was literally mine. Followed me everywhere, had to be where he could touch me and would only respond to my voice. I cried like a baby when he passed. He had what we believe to be Maresk or however you spell it. I just couldn’t send him for necropsy once we put him down.

 

[micstrachan]

That information is huge. Why did you think he had Marek’s? If he did, your whole flock is exposed. Sadly, that could be the issue at hand right now.

 

[micstrachan]

Sorry, forgot to say I’m so sorry about the heart break with your little guy. I occasionally still tear up about my little Rusty. She wasn’t even my favorite, but we bonded when she was ill.

 

[snip2377]

That information is huge. Why did you think he had Marek’s? If he did, your whole flock is exposed. Sadly, that could be the issue at hand right now.

He had a leg issue and that was just my thought since it dealt with the leg. He didn’t come from the cleanest home that I saw when I rehomed him. I know I should have had him necropsied I just couldn’t bring myself to do it.

 

[snip2377]

Do you happen to know what it means when a hens feet and legs are yellow? Some are white and some are yellow. They are all Rhode Island’s.